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If you’re flying to New York you can check out the classic baseball stadia before they disappear..

Thank you, Derek and Dave, for giving us a place to comiserate during this bleakest of seasons. I wouldn’t have held on to what little remains of my sanity without this community.

joser on
September 26th, 2008 7:15 pm

Well, Derek isn’t telling the truth. But that’s because it’s a cover story to mask his real mission — to negotiate the end to Iran’s military nuclear program. Disentangling the Black Sox scandal and exposing rule cheats from Gaylord Perry to K-Rod makes him uniquely qualified to analyze Iran’s (non)compliance with the IAEA regulatory regime; you’ll know he’s making progress when Ahmedinejad is overheard muttering darkly about xFIP and weighted OPS.

1) Before going to tonight’s game, I was watching ESPN’s coverage of the Cubs/Brewers game…and Orel called Craig Counsell “a professional hitter.” The other announcers pinned him down and made him answer the “How can you call him a professional hitter when his batting average is so low?”

Orel said, “I can call him a professional hitter because when he’s up at the plate, he does all the things you want a hitter to do up there…all except get hits.”

It almost made me miss Vidro.

2) I am one of those people who always goes to Fan Appreciation Day…and never takes home any of the much, much more. Never.

3) Did they show our first base coach’s EPIC FAIL on his attempt to throw a ball into the crowd? Hilarious…and embarrassing…and it made me feel better about…

4) …when Valbuena was fouling off a series of pitches on his way to getting the first hit of the game, I was on my CrackBerry trying to dial up USS Mariner to share some of the Bedard information with my wife–when one of the foul balls was hit DIRECTLY AT ME. (In Section 331, we rarely get foul balls hit our way.) Since I hadn’t seen the pitch or the swing, I could only react to the sound of the crowd–and I panicked and covered my face with both of my elbows…

The ball hit the protective barrier right in front of me and clattered into the 100 level.

I had nightmares of being shown endlessly on SportsCenter–like those Cowboys fans who missed while trying to high five each other…until I remembered that no one at ESPN would be paying attention to the feed of an M’s/A’s game.

Still embarrassing though…and for the rest of the game, I only checked out this site while between innings.